Thing 14 - Digital EBook Creation

I have downloaded several of the ebook creation programs to my personal ipad
over the years to check them out. I was most impressed with Book Creator.
I played with it a little but it is hard to use any of these programs with students
with just the one ipad in the library classes.

I was so excited when I decided to look at this cool tool and realized that they
had recently come out with a web version of Book Creator!

I now can have the whole class working on their own book at the same time.

As part of their tutorials, they have a great how to “ebook” that includes 50 ways
to use book creator

https://read.bookcreator.com/aWAhdfUWXPQR1UPW7fJOHnfObsb2/_or2hLPmR3WlS34sPH_WKQ

I did a sample book for a student that is wild about sharks. I added pictures and
links and even created a talking Sammie the shark using a program called
Chatter Pix.

https://read.bookcreator.com/Q4K7wJQ6XRM9CFVLJOIvCPBfMsR2/AHGE6oXAQPeuEP1NAiOBmw

I figured they could use this as a sample of how to add links and videos etc
to their own animal ebook.

One of the articles in this cool tool mentioned another program Storyboard That.

I have used that for years with students and I really like many of its features.
I don’t think of it as an eBook creator but maybe that is just a matter of
terminology. The students have made great “comics” with it about many topics -
Colonial Times, Famous Person etc. Example below - student created about
Martin Luther King:

I could see using these as part of an ebook creator like Book Creator.

Some other ideas for using book creator are:

I know one of the 1st grade teachers is using it with his more advanced students
and they love it.

I am thinking of doing it with a third grade class that want to study more about
unusual frogs above and beyond what they get from the curriculum text.

I set up a “class” and they get an invite code which they can create the book
and then they are automatically shared with me.